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100	1		_aWebster, Robert G., _d1932- _e1
245	1	0	_aFlu hunter : _bunlocking the secrets of a virus / _cRobert G. Webster.
260			_aDunedin, New Zealand : _bOtago, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource : _billustrations (some colour)
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505	0	0	_aForeword / _rby Lance Jennings -- _tEmergence of the monster: Spanish influenza, 1918 -- _tThe start of influenza research -- _tFrom seabirds in Australlia to Tamiflu -- _tThe search moves to wild ducks in Canada -- _tDelaware Bay: the right place at the right time -- _tProving interspecies transmission -- _tVirologists visit China -- _tHong Kong hotbed: live bird markets and pig processing -- _tSearching the world, 1975-95 -- _tThe smoking gun -- _tBird flu: the rise and spread of H5N1 -- _tThe first pandemic of the 21st century -- _tSARS, and a second bird flu outbreak -- _tDigging for answers on the 1918 Spanish influenza -- _tResurrecting the 1918 Spanish influenza -- _tOpening Pandora's Box -- _tLooking to the future: are we better prepared.
520	0		_a"When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality. Enormous social disruption and substantial economic cost can result. The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic was undoubtedly the most devastating influenza pandemic to date, and it has been Dr Robert Webster's life's work to figure out how and why. In so doing he has made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of influenza viruses and how to control them. A century on, Flu Hunter is a gripping account of the tenacious scientific detective work involved in revealing the secrets of this killer virus. Dubbed `Flu Hunter' by Smithsonian Magazine in 2006, Dr Webster began his research in the early 1960s with the insight that the natural ecology of most influenza viruses is among wild aquatic birds. Painstaking tracking and testing of thousands of birds eventually led him and the other scientists involved to establish a link between these bird virus `reservoirs' and human influenza pandemics. Some of this fascinating scientific work involved exhuming bodies of Spanish flu victims from the Arctic permafrost in a search for tissue samples containing genetic material from the virus. Could a global influenza pandemic occur again? Webster's warning is clear: ` ... it is not only possible, it is just a matter of when.' --Publisher
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650		0	_aInfluenza _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEpidemics _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAvian influenza.
650		0	_aInfluenza _xEpidemiology.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2013131&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell